Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moses, who was head of this summer's Mississippi Project, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in the First Congregational Church in Cambridge...
Moses was born in New York City, received an M.A. in philosophy at Harvard in 1957, and taught mathematics at the Horace Mann School in New York. He first went to Mississippi in 1961, as a Field Secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
...University of Mississippi professor ticked off incident after incident to prove his thesis, noting with particular joy that Jackson mayor Allen Thompson "has changed overnight from one of the state's greatest racists to a very respectable pleader for law and order...
...These kids were very self-disciplined. They proved to Mississippi that a well-to-do white man can live intimately with Negroes," he said...
James Silver, author of the bestselling Mississippi: The Closed Society, last night suggested that "my state just might be opening up again, and this time for good...